Still, the news this week that Smithfield will close — its owner, the City of London Corporation, killed a plan to move the market to a new site in East London — came as something of a jolt to ...

London's historic Smithfield meat market is at risk of being closed for good at a vote in the City of London. The City of London Corporation, which owns and operates the site, has previously ...

Even as Jeff Griffin says he's optimistic that the Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux ... Chamber of Commerce says that the impact of the closure will ripple across both the city and region.

This might be truer still now the closure of Smithfield has been announced. One of the city’s famed but few nocturnal operations, a wholesale food market in situ for almost 900 years ...